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Coca-Cola and Del Monte Caught in Plot to Deceive Moms and Minorities Over Dangers of BPA
Environmental Working Group (EWG) called on its growing list of supporters to demand both Coca-Cola and Del Monte stop the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in the food and beverage containers of each company...
California Senate Votes to Ban Bisphenol A in Baby Food and Beverage Products
Today the California state Senate passed the Toxics-Free Babies and Toddlers Act (SB 797), which would ban bisphenol A, or BPA, from food and drink containers designed for children ages three and...
Press Release - Pollution Found in Five Extraordinary Women Leaders
An unprecedented two-year study commissioned by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), in partnership with Rachel's Network and conducted by four independent research laboratories in the United States...
W. Virginia, Ohio Families Face Toxic Teflon Chemical Risk
A March 10 agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. over drinking water contamination around the company's Parkersburg, WV, plant leaves people...
Children’s Bath Products Contaminated with Formaldehyde, 1,4-Dioxane
Despite marketing claims like “gentle” and “pure,” dozens of top-selling children's bath products are contaminated with the cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane, according to product...
House Hearing to Examine the Case For TSCA Reform
It is the federal law that industry loves and environmentalists love to hate, yet have been unable to reform since it was enacted a generation ago. But a congressional hearing convened today by Rep...
EWG Asks EPA Chief To Support Toxics Reform Bill
Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook today urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to support The Kid-Safe Chemicals Act, a proposed reform of U.S. toxic...
Lautenberg Assumes Powerful Committee Position With Oversight of Toxic Chemicals
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, D-NJ, one of the U.S. Senate's most influential advocates for children's health has assumed the chair of the Environment and Public Works subcommittee charged with...
Bush Handed DuPont Goodbye Gift Over Toxic Teflon Chemical
In the last weeks of the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly handed DuPont Co. a three-year extension to complete tests mandated by a 2005 legal settlement on a...
UCLA study: U.S. Women at Greater Risk from Teflon Chemical
A major new study published yesterday in Human Reproduction, a European reproductive medicine journal, has found that pregnant women and women of child-bearing age in the United States are at greater...
GAO Calls Reform of Federal Toxics Policy a ‘Top Priority’
In its 2009 ‘High Risk' priority list released yesterday, the General Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a blistering indictment of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Bush-era lapses from...
Bush EPA Shirks Responsibility Over Perchlorate Contamination
WASHINGTON –- In a last-ditch effort to avoid regulating widespread perchlorate contamination of drinking water, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for yet another blue-ribbon...
Last Minute Mischief at EPA
As the clock runs out on the Bush administration, officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are trying to hand industry yet another victory by refusing to set safety standards for the...
Teflon chemical linked to increased cholesterol levels
A chemical used to make Teflon, food wrappers and dozens of other consumer products is linked to higher levels of cholesterol, according to the latest findings of a multi-year study of 69,000 West...
PRESS Release -- Chemical additives in bottled water plastics
An Environmental Working Group investigation found that the recycling code 1 PET plastics contain numerous chemical additives, numerous manufacturing impurities and degradation byproducts, with 90...
EPA Ignores Toxic Rocket Fuel Chemical in Drinking Water
Under pressure from the White House and the Pentagon, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided not to set cleanup or safety standards for a toxic rocket fuel chemical that contaminates drinking...
One Pesticide Classified as Unsafe, Hundreds More to Go
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that carbofuran, already registered as a restricted use pesticide, poses dietary, worker and ecological risks.
Credibility Gap: Are New Food Packaging Chemicals Any Safer?
DuPont and other chemical companies have promised to phase out a cancer-causing chemical found in grease-resistant coatings for food packaging. But the new, supposedly green chemicals the industry is...
Landmark Chemical Reform Introduced in Congress
Amid rising concern over toxic chemicals in consumer products and the bodies of Americans, three members of Congress today introduced legislation to make sure chemicals are safe before they are...
Major Study of Teflon Chemical in People Suggests Harm To Immune System, Liver, Thyroid
A chemical used to make Teflon, food wrappers and dozens of other products may harm the immune system, liver and thyroid and cause higher cholesterol in children, according to the initial findings of...